rolls of metallic paper
I have some rolls of paper with only a generic part number. 8" wide, like a teletype roll but silver/grey metallic coating. I don't think it's thermal. What printer technology used that? -- Jeff Jonas
Sounds like electrostatic paper, like the kind used in the Radio Shack screen printer for the original TRS-80. If I recall the process, the printer has pins that create a small spark on the paper surface which makes a black mark as the printed element. Most likely in a dot-matrix configuration. Others may have more detail and corrections to my explanation. Jeff Salzman On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:44 AM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have some rolls of paper with only a generic part number. 8" wide, like a teletype roll but silver/grey metallic coating. I don't think it's thermal. What printer technology used that?
-- Jeff Jonas
I concur. Tektronix also made electrostatic printers; this description matches the paper they use. -Dave On 1/21/23 06:06, Jeff S via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Sounds like electrostatic paper, like the kind used in the Radio Shack screen printer for the original TRS-80.
If I recall the process, the printer has pins that create a small spark on the paper surface which makes a black mark as the printed element. Most likely in a dot-matrix configuration. Others may have more detail and corrections to my explanation.
Jeff Salzman
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:44 AM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have some rolls of paper with only a generic part number. 8" wide, like a teletype roll but silver/grey metallic coating. I don't think it's thermal. What printer technology used that?
-- Jeff Jonas
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
A picture would help - there's a couple different styles, but 'silver computer rolled paper' is probably thermal or electrostatic. On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 2:44 AM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have some rolls of paper with only a generic part number. 8" wide, like a teletype roll but silver/grey metallic coating. I don't think it's thermal. What printer technology used that?
-- Jeff Jonas
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
If it's thermal, that'll be fun to work with. We could put an Okimate 10 or 20 on the museum Commodore 64 and use the thermal paper directly to print silver backed Print Shop banners. Jeff Salzman On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:25 AM Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
A picture would help - there's a couple different styles, but 'silver computer rolled paper' is probably thermal or electrostatic.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 2:44 AM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have some rolls of paper with only a generic part number. 8" wide, like a teletype roll but silver/grey metallic coating. I don't think it's thermal. What printer technology used that?
-- Jeff Jonas
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
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